Tuesday, November 18, 2008

NASCAR trumps Steelers

Bob and I used to live in East Tennessee -- just down the road from the Bristol Motor Speedway. Since we worked at a television station and were in the land of NASCAR, I absorbed quite a bit of knowledge about the sport and its athletes by osmosis.

I distinctly remember talking drivers with my grandfather once and my mom looking at me with a surprised, this-is-not-my-daughter look on her face.

Once we left the land of NASCAR, I went back to my usual self, only watching football and whining while watching baseball with Bob.

It's not that I have too much against car racing, but if watching men stand around a diamond and only sometimes run to a base bores me, then watching cars zoom around a circle is definitely not my idea of entertainment.

As for the wrecks, they just upset me. I can't enjoy that.

Now that I'm a mom, my dislike of NASCAR has grown. And I could only imagine how cool racing would seem to my son.

On Sunday, Little Elvis was not at all interested in the Steelers/Chargers match-up, so he kept changing the channels. Guess what he landed on? Yep, he found a NASCAR race, and was immediately intrigued. He would point, and dance and was too thrilled with this show.

Every time they cut away to the announcers, he would change the channels in an attempt to find the cars.

Poor Daddy had a devil of a time watching his Steelers squeak by with a win. We're pretty sure it was an exciting game. We only got to see 2-3 second bits of it between channel changes.

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Yet another thing we having in common! Well, the feeling toward Nascar and baseball anyway. My little one hasn’t really expressed such a strong feeling for cars yet. Now singing and dancing is another matter. He quite enjoys singing into his thumb.

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